Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY, speaks to the media about the Defense Authorization Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on June 9. The Senate will vote Monday on a spending bill that would keep the government operating through Dec. 11 without touching Planned Parenthood funding. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The Senate will vote Monday on a spending bill that would keep the government operating through Dec. 11 without touching Planned Parenthood funding.

"Democrats' insistence on blocking the strategy pursued today means we have to consider the options now before us," McConnell said Thursday. "The reality is that the government will shut down next week if Congress doesn't act."

The move comes after nearly every Democrat and eight Republicans blocked a Senate bill Thursday that would fund the government through Dec. 11 but also defund Planned Parenthood. The vote was taken largely to demonstrate a conservative-backed plan to defund Planned Parenthood, devised by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had scant support.

McConnell has indicated the fight against Planned Parenthood is not over. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., chairman of the Appropriations Committee, urged his Republican colleagues to back the new legislation saying it would "ensure continued government operations while we debate and pass appropriations bills on the Senate floor."